Planting kelp beds as an innovative habitat compensation tool for the British Columbia forestry sector

林业部门是温哥华岛上的一个重要经济产业，为成千上万的家庭提供支持。现代伐木做法寻求最大限度地减少环境影响;然而，伐木造成的海洋栖息地退化仍然是沿海不列颠哥伦比亚省（BC）面临的一个挑战。在该项目中，NSERC将支持北岛学院与MC Wright and Associates和BC Timber Sales合作，使用不同的种植技术在受伐木影响和未受影响的地点种植海带，以评估海带作为林业部门的栖息地修复工具。海带床自然地为许多不同的物种提供食物和栖息地，同时使水氧化并从海洋中吸收碳。该研究将测量这些地点的物种丰度、海带生长和碳吸收以及海洋学参数，以将种植的海带栖息地与对照地点和处理进行比较。这个项目的更广泛的目标是开发一个工具箱的生境补救/补偿战略，利用海带在类似的网站受伐木做法。

The forestry sector is an economically important industry on Vancouver Island that supports thousands of families. Modern logging practices seek to minimize environmental impacts; however, marine habitat degradation from logging remains a challenge in coastal British Columbia (BC). In this project, NSERC will support North Island College to work with MC Wright and Associates and BC Timber Sales to plant kelp at logging impacted and non-impacted sites using different planting techniques, to assess kelp as a habitat remediation tool for the forestry sector. Kelp beds naturally provide food and habitat for many different species, while oxygenating the water and absorbing carbon from the ocean. The research will measure species abundance at the sites, kelp growth and carbon absorption, and oceanographic parameters to compare the planted kelp habitat against control sites and treatments. The broader goal of this project is to develop a toolbox of habitat remediation/compensation strategies using kelp in similar sites affected by logging practices.